Time Defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope
Time Defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope or Allegory of Time and Beauty is a 1627 painting by Simon Vouet, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, which bought it in London in 1954.
Description[]
The titan Cronus is personified as the inexorable Time that devours everything, only occasionally stopped or defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope. The allegory is shown in a somewhat humorous and jovial way.[1]
Time, with the scythe of death and an hourglass, is brought down by Beauty and Hope, helped by some putti, who attack the old man on the ground, in a humorous way, biting and plucking his wings. A wreath of flowers identifies Hope, while Beauty, for whom Vouet supposedly used his wife, Virginia da Vezzo, as a model, pulls out some of his hair.[2]
References[]
- ^ VV. AA., Mitología clásica e iconografía cristiana, 2010, R. Areces, p. 45 (Spanish) ISBN 978-84-8004-942-9
- ^ Time Defeated by Love, Beauty and Hope, Prado Museum (Spanish)
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